' I VOLUME 6. McCONNELLSBURG, PA.. JULY 26, 1905. NUMBER 45 FAR OFF INDIA. Recent Letter to Her Parent from Miss Alice Wlshart. , Landour, India. Juue 14, 1005 Dearest Mother. When 1 was walking through the bazaar this morning on my way to Mr, Lyall's Biole reading, I so wished for you and lather to be with me to see the strange people, and the varieties of dress displayed. Many hill tribes and Thibetans come here long-haired, dirty looking men, with faces like Chi nese idols, and a staring, wander ing gaze. Then, there are such brilliant colors, too, and the shops are full of interesting things. It is all so quaint and warm and oriental that it is almost like a picture; yet India is the realest thing to one too real sometimes, when one sees the force of the Evil one and his manifest work ing. The air seems to reek with sin sometimes. But there is a Force working now which has not been felt for some time. The very Spirit of God, who has been grieved for so long, is stirring, and as soon as missionaries and Christians awake, and get on tire, the Revival will come, and that means the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We have had very splen did meetings, which have brought forth confessions of sin, convic tion, and a deep sense of need from men and women who are leaders in religious things. A terrible need is beginning to be felt everywhere, and missionar ies and ministers of the gospel are coming to realize as never be fore, that it is not by might, nor by power, nor by talent, ;. educa tion, or ability, but by God's Spirit that the work must be done here. There has been so much energy of the flesh honest, faithful, good work toil, toil, toil but this will not bring men to Christ it needs a mightier than any human one to do it; and so dozens, if not hundreds, are praying daily for an outpouring, such as Wales knows, to sweep men and women and the heathen into the kingdom. Is it not true that the greatest curse of the church to-day is lukewarm ness ? What littleitEAL concern for dying souls ! Self, and what self wants, has been playing such a part , that there seems room for nothing;, else. People think more of their clothes and stomachs and amusements, than of immortal lives are play ing at being followers of Christ. It isn't any use mincing or gloss ing over matters. It is so here; and if 1 remember rightly, it was so at home. Those who aro sat is fled with things as they are, will call those who are not "cranks" But what does it mat ter ? What we need is Power; and we cannot get it until we get at an end of ourselves. As some one says, "To be really some thing, is to be nothing, humanly Bpeaking." I simply grow dis gusted with the satisfaction in myself and in other Christians. We must be emptied before we can be filled; and there is no limit to a life in the Holy Spirit One ueeds to give up everything;', but our all is such a contemptible lit tle, to what God will givq in re turn. It all is sure to clash with the world. But when there is a Force which widens one into un conditioned largeness, the world "isn't in it." It means not an imitation, but a real indwelling Christ This vacation has been a time of receiving lessons very straight from God. And I need them. Do all of you pray that the ch urch, both in India and America ' and in other countries, may if et a bap tism of fare and become thorough ly awakened ? Some of us are so dead asleep, we don't know , it. and that is the worst part. Faith ful, believing prayer will bring it But we must be desperately in earnest about it; it must be real, and no counterfeit Mr. Lyall, the Scottish-Amen. can Evangelist, who spoke at the convention, and is now holding mission here, is well known in NEW LAW ON DEEDS. Sheriff Alexander Will Acknowledge Deeda Before Prothonotary Harris. Instead of acknowledging deeds in open court as heretofore, the sheriff under the tiew law will go before the prothonotary with all deeds for real estate. The new law directs that all ac knowledgements of Sheriff's deeds shall be before the Pro thonotary and they can be made on all days except on Sunday And holidays. The new law also pro vides that all such deeds shall be placed in the continuance docket of the Prothonotary 's office and filed in a separate book to be kept in the recorder's office subject to inspection as are other records of said court No deed shall be acknowledged betore the return day of the writ under which the sale was had, or pending a motion to set aside the sale or exceptions made : to its confirmation, nor shall a deed be delivered while such a motion or exceptions are pending whether made before or after, acknowl edgement, and until the expira tion of such further time, if any, as the court may direct by rule, or special on standing order. At the expiration of the time stated, and after the final disposition of all such motions and exceptions, if any such be made, the prothon otary or clerk shall deliver the deed to the sheriff who shall forthwith cause it to be register ed in the proper office, if registry is required, and recorded in the office for the recording of deeds and so forth in said county.. The law specifies that the ac knowledgement ol the deed and the delivery to the sheriff shall operate as a delivery to the gran tee or grantees with the same ef fect as if acknowledged in open court, under existing laws and as if delivery to the grantee or grantees personally. Why is it that weeds higher than a pedestrian's head are per mitted to grow unmolested along the walks of some of our streets? Can it be that our councilmen are taking a vacation, or have aban doned the good work begun last spring when they had the streets put in such fine shape ? It is to be hoped that property owners will give this their immediate' at tention and give our "city dads" a much needed lesson on civic pride. Citizen. WEST DUBL11. , George Miller, John Hoopen- gardner and Elliot Smith, of Mc Connellsburg, who are working atRiddlesburg, passed through this place Monday, having spent Sunday at their homes. . Edwin S. Clevenger, who is em ployed with the Pennsylvania' R. R. in Pittsburg, spent a few days recently with the family of his father, Hiram Clevenger, while returning from a vacation trip to New York, Atlantic City uiid Philadelphia. Mrs. Cisney, of Burnt Cubius, is visiting her daughter, Mrs, A. J. Comerer. Charles Gray, who bad his feet so badly frozen last winter, while dredging for oysters in Chesa peake Bay, that he had to be tak en to a hospital, passed through this place Sunday morning on his way to Morrison's Cove, Bod ford county. Rev. Salter preached a good sermon atFtirview Sunday after noon from Heb.-18:l. PLEASANT WDOE. - Last Sunday TJ. W. Kline was at the home of F. R. Shives, and Louie Shives was at J. A. Mel lott's. Thomas Mellott aud Emma Strait were guests of Frank Mel- lot and wife last week. D. H. Truax is on the sick list Chicago. He Is a very magnetic speaker, or rather, 1 should say, full of the Spirit A. BIO FIRE AT THE QAP. The Wlster Flouring Mill Burned Last Saturday Night. About half past nine o'clock the attention of a number of our peo ple was attracted to bright light reflected from the sky in the di rection of Mercersburg, and ou Sunday it was learned tlmt the big flouring mill at Cove Gap, or Foltz as the postoffice is called, was totally destroyed by fire, to gether with all its contents. The mill was a three-story building and the fire was first dis covered on the first floor by sev eral gentlemen who were stand ing near the store not far from the mill property. They at once gave the alarm and the citizens promptly responded. It was found impossible to save the structure and all efforts were ex ercised in saving the adjoining property. The mill was owned by the Mercersburg Water Company and was considered one of the best mill properties in that sec tion of the country. A quantity of new wheat, flour and feed, be longing to the company, was con sumed with seventy-five bushels of malt and 150 bushels of rye be longing to D. W. Unger, the dis tiller at Folte. The lost is esti mated at about $12,000, partially covered by insurance. A lew years ago the mill property and site were sold by J. A. Wister to the Mercersburg Water Company for $8,500. The mill was built of brick and stone with a slate roof. The house occupied by Howard Bryan and owned by the company which is close by the mill, was several times in danger of being set on fire. Through the efforts of citizens, who formed a bucket brigade, the house was saved from being badly damaged. The cause of the fire is un known. Half an hour after the closing dpwn of the mill the fire broke out all of a sudden, as though from a combustion of some kind. The rollers of the mill were taken outlast week and sent to the Wolf company to be ground. It is said that it is not likely the Water Company will re build the mill. Michael Lehman, Mrs. Lou Jackson, and Miss Roettger, of this place, were visiting friends at Ft. Loudon the past week. J. Nelson Mellott and wife, of Indianapolis, Ind., spent a few days the first of this week, the guests of Mr. Mellott's sister, Mrs. S. K. Pittman, of this place. Mr. Mellott has been an employee of the Railway Mail Service for the past filteen years , and is spending his annual vacation with bis father, David R. Mellott, at Pleasant Ridge. James Woodal, Sr. and James Woodal, Jr. and D. A. Washa baugh, who are jointly working the Jared Pittman farm and the John B. Hoke farm, the latter farm now owned by Mr. Washa baugh, have during the summer put out 65 acres of corn, plough ed it tour times, and made and put; away 125 tons of hay. When it is considered that they bad an extra hand but four days, and that the elder Woodal is 65 years of age, it is a pretty good record. Among those who were guests in the family of Merchant J. W. Lake, of Pleasant Ridge, during the past week were A. G Shoe maker, wife and little daughter Precious, and Prof. W. Don Mor ton of McConnellsburg; Mrs. Maria Palmer, of Need more; Prof. B. N. Palmer, of Salix, Pa. ; Mrs. C. M. Dixon and daughter Ethel of Chambersburg; Dr. LorenzaL. Truax, of St. Louis, Mo ; Mrs. E. N. Palmer and Fred Palmer and wife of Everuli; Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Pittenger of Harrison ville; Boyd Lake of McKibbin; Mrs. Date (Lake) Gauta and little son William, of Philadelphia; Dr. Palmer and wife of Need more, and Miss Ida Bard ot Pleasant Ridge. The Coat of Life Insurance. Walter Wellman, the capable ! Washington correspondent of the j Chicago Record-Herald, is filling in the interim between Congress- j es by studying a number of econ omic and civic question? and giv ing the readers of his newspaper the benefit of his information and observation. Just at present he is writing a number of letters from New York on questions re lating to life insurance, the topic, of course, being inspired bj the disclosures in the Equitable so ciety. In one of his recent let ters he asks this question: "Does life insurance in the United States cost too much v" and he answers it with a very emphatic "Tes." . Sereno 8. Pratt, an economist of distinction, in a recent article in the World's Work, made the statement that the expenses of twenty-eight American life insur ance companies in 1894 were 17.4 per cent of the income, whereas in Great Britain the expenses of ordinary life companies were on ly 9.2 per cent, of the mcoine, and in Germany the govern ineut in dustrial insurance expenses were 7 per cent. Mr. Wellman puts the percentage of expense to in come even higher, and says that 20 per cent, is probably correct. This is more than twice the cost in Great Britain, and nearly three times the cost in Germany. He says: "Obviously American com panies spend too much money in management. There are too many high salaries, too much lav ishness in magnificent offices, and, above all, too much money going out to tin agents and solic itors who drum up new business." There has recently been pub lished by a Boston expert, a vol ume entitled "The Brown Boob ot Lite Insurance Economies," in which a table is given of twenty live leading companies, showing the expense cost per $1000 of in surance in force, and the ratio to premiums of the various items of expenditure. From this table it appears that nine of these com panies have their home offices in New York city. The remaining sixteen are scattered, although located chiefly in New Englandi The average expense cost for the nine in New York is $13.05 on each $1000 of insurance in force, whereas for the sixteen compan ies outside of New York it is $8. 83. The average expense of the entire twenty-five companies is $9.86, and every one of the nine companies doing business in New York city is above the average. All but four of the sixteen com panies outside of New York city are below the average. In com menting Mr. Wellman says : "These are significant figures. They show that life insurance in New York city is keyed too high. The struggle for bigness, the ea ger rivalry for rapid growth, par ticipated in so keenly by the man agers here, are producing their inevitable effects. Everything is keyed high in New York. Living is costly. Money is spent at a rate which amazes us homely folk from the modest West or the easy going national capital. Salaries are big in New York. Men live high. It costs as much to set a decent dinner in this towu as we Western boys used to pay tor a week's board. "The golden stream that Hows into the treasuries of life insur ance companies of this metropo lis comes from all parts of the United States. It is one of the tributes which the country pays to New York's financial domi nance. And the high salaried, fat-living, automobile-running, swell apartment, trips-to Europe men who control these golden streams are not as careful or as scrupulous us they hould bu m the management of thoir trusts. In these figures wo have t ho proof of it" It is perhaps not within our province to refer specifically to the companies which appear to be economically managed and those whose management is ex travagant, but we may properly call attention to those who have DON'T LIKE HAUERST0WN. "Citizen" Says li s a Rich Man'a Town. Wants Out. I am in Uagerstown, butwouid as lief be out It is a good sized town and has a great many fac tories, but wages are low and they only work boys and girls. A man with a family cau hardly get a position. If one gets 90 cents or $1.00 a day for labor, it is big. Carpenters get from $1.25 to $2.0'; and if they have a family of six or eight children, they will have to live on about four cents a meal. Rent is most ly high, excepting a few story aud a-half houses, which rent from $0 to $8 per month. Other things aro high in proportion to" wages. Taxes are fearfully high. There is lots of money here, but the men that have it know what to do with it. They want 6 per cent, and good security and mort gage and insurance turned over to them. It is a rich man's town. I will get out of it as soon as 1 can sell. Citizen. forest dale. The farmers are all done har vesting and the threshing men are at work. Uncle John Hann has contract ed to build a mansion house for John A. Haw man. One day last week on his return home from Mrs. Maria Mann's at the foot of Green hill, W. E. Bair was overtaken by an automobile and his horse became frightened and jerked Billy lrom under his hat. Philip Strait has swung two cradles all harvest "It Is a boy." Lewis Sponsler has returned home from Franklin county, where he had been harvesting for four weeks. "Rev. Pittinger and wife took supper at Jackson Deshong's last Sunday evening. Our Huckster, Bert Hann, has purchased a new wagon. Come on now with your butter and eggs. Lewis Sponsler and wife and sons Clyde and Percy; Elva Hart man, and Russel Mellott, wife, and daughter Irene, spent Satur day evening very pleasantly with Jackson Deshoug and wife. Robert fipecr and wife, of Ev erett, attended church at Green hill Sunday. .Mrs. Anna Hann of Saluvia, a id her daughter Sadie, of Cham bersburg, have returned from Clearfield county, where they had Lien visiting friends. their home offices in Massachu setts. The table in the Brown b'.olc shows that our own Spring field company, The Massachu setts Mutual, iu which there is naturally manifested a consider able degree of local pride, has an e pense of only $7.40 per $1000 of insurance in force, which, with one excoptiou, is the lowest of ay of the entire twenty-five lead ing companies. The expense cu-t of the Berkshire Lite is $7. 90, and of tho State Mutual $8.67. Tl.o administrative and clerical per cent, of these three compan ies is respectively 5.85, 5.51 and 4 !K It ,i an exceedingly satisfac tmy showing that these three Massachusetts companies make. Ii tends to prove the assertion tint the insurance business in Massachusetts is well conducted and efficiently supervised. Theor etically, the big companies in New York ought to makp a better ectiuomic showing than the small er companies, because it is an ax iom of modern industrialism that the greater the business the less th'i relative cost of handling it. That they do not, appears to be dun Bolely to their extravagant methods, a horrible sample of which we have seen In the Equit able disclosures. The people are becoming better acquainted with the insurance business, and it will not be surprising' thafaaa result of public senti ment the big companion will suffer to tho ad vantage of the smallor ' ftnea.- The Uiuinn. WHY MILK GETS SOUR. Not by Thunder Storm, But by Atmos pheric Conditions. The dairymen of Washington county, have had considerable trouble this season in keeping their milk from souring. Some of th'itn attributed the tendency of the milk to sour quickly to the frequent thunderstorms, the be lief generally prev.'iilii.g that thun der and lightning will almost in stantly sour ui ilk. Others, how ever, held that thunder and light ning had nothing to do with milk souring. To settle the contro versy, the matter was laid belore the United States department of agriculture. In reply to a letter on the subject, D. E. Salmon, chief of the bureau of animal in dustry, states that thunder and lightning do not sour milk. He writes : ; "The thought conveyed in your question, as to whether thunder and lightning will cause milk to to sour, is an error very popular ly believed all over the dountry. It comes about from an improper observation of cause and effect. The thunder and lightning them selves have nothing to do with the souring cl milk, but usually when the atmospheric condition is right to produce thunder and lightning it is also right for the quicker souring of milk. Under these conditions the air is usual ly very moist and, more frequent ly than otherwise, very hot. These two conditions favor the souring of milk, and the develop ment of bacteria in the milk goes on at a very rapid rate under such conditions The only thing that causes the souring of milk is the growth of bacteria in it The milk sugar is broken down, form ing lactic acid and some other products which have no effect on the milk, and the muggy weather usually attending a thunderstorm tauses the development to pro ceed very much taster than un der other conditions." A. E. Clevenger. Aaron Ellwood Clevenger, son of Samuel M. Clevenger, of this county, died at his late residence near Reynoldstore, Va.; July 15, 1905. His remains were followed to their last resting place in the cemetery at Wesley Chapel, by a large concourse of sorrowing friends and neighbors. Services conducted by his pastor. Mr. Clevenger was born about three miles north of Need more, November 20, 1863, hence was aged 41 years, 7 months and 25 days. He spent the earlier part of his life in his native township, going to Virginia in the spring of 1887. Mr. Clevenger passed peace fully away, leaving the blessed assurance that his spirit has re turned to God who gave it there to sing redemption songs around the great white throne forever- more. About eleven months ago, he had an attack of measles, which ended in that dread disease, con sumption, causing his death. He is survived by a wife and two children Bertha and Olive both at home, by father and mother, and by four brothers, namely, Wm. B., of Swallow Falls, Md.;Geo. L., of Bloomington, III; John M., of Uustontown; Erra, of Laidig; and two sisters, Mrs. J. P. Garland, of Needmora, and Mrs. Harry Mort, of Sixmile Run. Farmers' Institute. The Board of Institute Mana gers at their late meeting recom mended to the Agricultural De partment at Harrisburg that the County Institute for the coming season be held at Fort Littleton and McConnellsburg at such a time as the Department think wise. R. M. Kendall, President Blanche Wink of Fort Littleton, la spending a few days with her parents, Wm. Wink and wife near Licking Creek. ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW! Snapshots at Their Movements, as They Come and Gc. NAMES OF VISITORS AND VISITED Home for a Vacation, Awsjr lor Outlsf, a Trip for Business or Pleasure. Yoa'll Find It Rlf at Here. S. M. Clevenger, of Need more, was in town Monday evening. Chester Hann, of Saluvia, was in town Monday on business. Etta Hockensmith, of Andover, is spending some time in the home of Dr. Palmer at Needmore. Rev. W. R. Truax and John Mellott attended Harvest meet ing at Stone Ridge last Sunday. Lewis Sipes and wife, of Lai dig, were at the county seat on business Monday. Sheridan Hann and wife of Sa luvia, were guests of M. E. H. Bard and family last Thursday. Frank J. Wilson, of Clearfield, is visiting in the home of George F. Metzler at Harrisonville. George C. Fraker, of Fort Lit tleton, spent a few hours in town last Saturday. Mrs. Mary Wilhelm, of Home stead, Pa., is visiting her parents, J. Nelson Sipes and wife. John Hoover, of Chambers burg, spent a few days in this place during the past week. Mr. Clarence Wilson and Miss Barbara Largent were the guests' of the latter's parents Sunday. Mr. John D. Cutchall and little daughter Roxy, spent an after noon in town one day last week. Annie Reisner and her brother, Master George, have been spend ing the past week inShippens burg. Lewis Largent, of this place, is spending two or three weeks with his aunt, Mrs. Josie Bergstresser at Waterfall. Mrs. E. N. Palmer, of Everett, spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Martha Palmer of Sipes Mill. Minnie Mellott, of Needmore, who visited her sister Mrs. Mel lott, of Kearney, returned to her home last Sunday. Mr. Fred V. Palmer, of Ever ett, accompaniod by his wife nnd mother, are visiting among their friends in this county. Miss Florida Clevenger, of Washington, D. C, is the guest other grandmother, Mrs. Eliza beth Morton of Belfast township. Miss Ettie Williams, who is em ployed at this place, spent sever al days this week visiting ier parents, John Williams and wife, of Saluvia. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sanders of Gettysburg, are guests of Rev. and Mrs. A. G. Wolf at the Luth eran parsonage. Mrs. Sanders and Mrs. Wolf are sisters. Editor Harry A. Thompson, of the Tyrone Times, spent a few days during the past week visit ing his mother, Mrs. M. A. Thompson, in this place. Dr. L. L. Truax, who spent a few day 8 recently with his ir ents, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Truax, of Pleasant Ridge, has returned to his business in St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Robert N. Sbimer, who has been employed in Harrisbu rg for several months, is spending his summer vocation with his ar ents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Shimer. Mrs. John Sheets and Mrs. George B. Shoemaker and daugh ter Bess spent last Thursday very pleasantly in the home of R. N. Fryman and wife, of the Cove. Miss Bess entertalued Meta with some fine selections of music on the organ. Mrs. Mary Lake, w.he had been spending several weeks with the family ot John M. Lake near Har risonville, and her daughter Mrs. A. G. Shoemaker near McCon nellsburg, and Rhoda Lake of , Philadelphia, and M. AltoLr.scf Bedford, have all return-1 t their home at Fbi'tut F.J-'
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